Bug 75651

Summary:	setenv in csh
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <eric.brueggmann>
Component:	tcsh	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Bill Huang <bhuang>
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Description Need Real Name 2002-10-10 17:26:25 UTC

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Description of problem:
Setting a variable with a "-" gives
syntax errors..

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.setenv a-b /c
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  polk% setenv a-b /c
setenv: Syntax Error.
polk%


Additional info:

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2002-10-10 17:34:41 UTC

I beleave other shells are affected as well..

polk% bash
bash-2.05b$ A-B=/C
bash: A-B=/C: No such file or directory
bash-2.05b$ A_B=/C
polk% zsh
polk% A-B=/C
zsh: no such file or directory: A-B=/C

Comment 2 Tomasz Kepczynski 2002-10-13 12:10:23 UTC

According to bash man page:
name - A word  consisting only of alphanumeric characters and underscores and
beginning with an alphabetic character or an underscore. Also referred to as an
identifier.
The above applies to both function and variable names and therefore '-' cannot
be used in them.
I can't find it for tcsh but I am quite sure the same applies.
This is not a fault.

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2004-07-20 15:23:51 UTC

Closing as 'notabug'